Countrywide, Britain’s largest estate agent, has linked up with auction house Sotheby’s to sell multi-million pound homes in London and beyond
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Commentary: The world record £65 million or $104.3 million paid anonymously at Sotheby’s last night for a work of art is easily explained. It is about that special problem of the super-rich which does not worry ordinary humanity: where to park their wealth... more
The Fabergé treasures of the Russian imperial family found only this year in the pillowcases in which they were sent for safekeeping after the revolution are to be sold in London... more
The Alice in Wonderland world of art defied reality as Picassos climbed to £7million and a Monet to £6.3 million at Sotheby's and Christie's summer Impressionist and Modern Painting sales in Mayfair and St James's... more
Possessions from the Italian lakeside home of the murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace sold for £7 million at auction - more than double the asking price... more
An 18th century masterpiece billed as the star lot in the auction of Gianni Versace's possessions has been withdrawn by Sotheby's amid fears the painting was stolen... more
Applause rang out at the big winter sale at Sotheby's of Impressionist and Modern Art when four bidders sent the price of a Degas bronze dancer up to £13.2 million - a runaway record for any sculpture by him... more
Tonight sees the start of the historic auction of 223 new works by Brit Art’s favourite son. But for our contemporary art critic, who has incurred the wrath of Sotheby’s, the sale is a huge risk that could bring the whole market tumbling down ... more
A post-war painting by the American Mark Rothko which is expected to make more than $30 million (£15 million) at auction has gone on show in London... more
Art collectors splashed out £21.6million at a Valentine's Day auction to benefit the fight against Aids in Africa, making it one of the biggest ever charity events
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The most expensive month of art sales in London kicks off on Monday, when paintings with an estimated value of £530 million go under the hammer.... more
High profile impressionist paintings failed to sell at auction at Sotheby's in New York prompting fears that art's dizzy boom could be nearing an end. ... more
A Sotheby's sale of modern art in London has made a record-breaking £45.8 million with thirteen works sold for more than a million pounds each. ... more
Sotheby's sale of Impressionist and early 20th-century art in New Bond Street made £95 million - the largest sum ever to change hands at an auction in Europe.... more
Sales such as Christie's Old Master Pictures are not just for buyers. The auction houses offer a unique opportunity to glimpse paintings rarely seen in public, says Brian Sewell.... more
Top chefs are to enter a battle to bag the first giant truffles of the season. Five winter white Italian truffles weighing 3 1/2lb in total will be the star lot at a Sotheby's charity auction.... more
It's a blockbuster modern art sale with a difference. Among the work up for grabs is a new spot painting by Damien Hirst, an etching by Lucian Freud and another box by Rachel Whiteread.... more
Sofia Coppola's boyfriend is lead singer and they won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album this year. Now, Phoenix tell Nosheen Iqbal, they are set to conquer London
Move over, Mahiki. Nightclub entrepreneurs Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling are soon to launch a new Eighties-inspired club in Chelsea, in honour of Lady Thatcher
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